Earth just had its hottest month yet, and the record-shattering warmth shows no signs of stopping.
According to NASA, global average surface temperatures during July were 0.84 degrees Celsius, or 1.51 degrees Fahrenheit, above average. This beats all previous Julys, with July 2011 coming in second at 0.74 degrees Celsius above average.
The large anomaly seen during July 2016 means that the month was the hottest on Earth since instrumental records began in 1880.
July is typically the planet’s hottest month of the year due to the fact that the Northern Hemisphere has more land area than the Southern Hemisphere, making Northern Hemisphere summer the warmest.
To repeat, it wasn’t only the hottest July but also the hottest month, period.
July is now the tenth month in a row to be the warmest such month on record in NASA’s database.
the hottest such month on record and hottest month overall, it would mean that the past 15 months have each set records — an unprecedented feat. The heat in the past two years has been caused by human-caused climate change with a boost from an El Niño event, which has now faded.
Yet the record heat, clearly, is continuing.
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